Playground Design

Playground Equipment for Small Spaces: Designing Play Areas Under 1,500 sq ft Choosing playground equipment for small spaces starts with a surprise: a 1,500 sq ft site holds far less play equipment than it appears to. Once the required safety zones come off the top, most small sites have well…

Commercial Playground Design Ideas That Actually Get Used: 12 Layouts From Real Canadian Parks The best commercial playground design ideas are rarely the most elaborate ones. They are the ones that still draw a crowd on a cold Tuesday in October, because the layout suits the site, the community and…

How to Design a Commercial Playground: A 9-Step Process for Municipalities and Schools Most playground projects do not fail at the design stage. They fail before it, when nobody has agreed who decides what, or in what order. Knowing how to design a commercial playground is largely a matter of…

Commercial Playground Design: The Complete Canadian Planning Guide A playground project rarely goes sideways on installation day. It goes sideways months earlier, when commercial playground design gets reduced to picking equipment out of a catalogue before anyone has taken a hard look at the site, the budget, or who the…

How to Add Circuit Play to Your Playground Circuit play is the concept that a playground shouldn’t have a clear beginning or end. Instead, they should be circular in nature and feature seamless transitions between events. Play should be continuous and motivate kids to try a different route each time.…

Overhead Climbers: More Than Monkey Bars If you ask someone to name their favourite overhead climber, chances are it will be “monkey bars.” And while there’s nothing wrong with this playground classic (after all, we offer them too!), there’s much more to overhead climbers than just this one product. Many…